The Brookhaven leader. [volume] (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1883-1891, 1887-11-03
BROOKHAVEN, MISS.
The Best and Most Attractive
Town on the /. c. Rail-
road South Of Jackson.
Its Location, Size, Healthfnlness'
and other Points Of Interest
which the Stranger Wishes
to Know.

| the Illinois Central Railroad. lzJ miles
north of New Orleans, ID miles south
81 Jackson, the State Capital, and 1856
miles south Of Chicago. IL is 500 feet
above tidcwatcr. and is the highest
point on the Illinois Central Railroad
between the Gulf of Mexico and Holly
Springs, Miss. 200 miles to the north.
Il Is the county site of Lincoln county.
where all county business is transacted.
and is the only town in The county ex-
sept Bogue Chitoo, n small place situated
Zen miles south. The corporate limits
embrace n square mile. OF which the
railroad depot is the centre. Its streets
are we'll paved with brick and gravel.
and such a thing rs mud and slush Is
hardly known Many of the streets
are lined with water oak and other
shade trees. and the RI lroad park forms
an attractive feature of Railroad av-
,nue The houses OF the city are well
built and substantial. Those in the
business district are mainly of brick,
while the residences arc uniformly
frame, and many OF them quite stately
and handsome. Quito number of
handsome new residences and business
houses have been erected during the
past two years, and many others en-
arged or otherwise improved.
Eusin,ss Aspect.
The business of Erookhaven Is OF q
staple and promising chara ter. The
record will show that there have been
fewer failures among her lu ,iness men
han in any other town of like size In
he State. 1t i, the market and trading
point of a majority o the people OF the
county. as well a. very large proportion
from Franklin. Jefferson and Lawrence
count es. The di.crcnt bus: mess and
profess ional vocations represented are
,riefly summed up as follows: Twen-
ty-tiyc general me camille houses; three
Irus storrs; three millinery stores; two
bakeries; four hoie and two Loarding
houses; two restaurants and fancy gro
Gerry stores: one undertaken and hard
ware store; one store and Tin house; one
furniture house; three boot and shoe
a.crs; two dental Office; one photo
graph gallery; two newspapers; one
;cwelcr; four phys clans seven lawyers;
two insurance agencies; ono foundry;
one mach.nis' a.d general repaircr;
one blacksmith shop an ono blacksmith
and wagon shop; two very stables;
* carpenters; three BARRIERS. one mar.
kct house. anil one real cs ate agency.
A number of our mercantile houses
carry stocks which in SIC, variety and
lIality. compare favor IDLY with those
II places of much greater size. The
Jaw mills of the county, with their hun
r. ds of employees and dependents, and
ne sturdy aSricu tural population. W II
,,ls ain and continuity lnc.ease our
commercial importan, {.
.o.,u a,I"n n al Property Valuation.
by the census Of 1>S0, the total pop
I'ation within the city $ shown To be
.6li-the whites being largely in the
major ty. At this time The number will
.lnt fall below 1000. and if we except
l-lhe manufacturing town of Wesson.
TN miles north. it is the largest of any
town on the Illinois Central between
New Orleans and jackson. As a rule,
the people are intelligent, highly cul-
tured, industrious. social and hospita-
bic. Nearly all OF the foreign popula-
ton OF the county is concentrated here,
embracing number of different ma
tionalities. but all harmonizing and
mingling together AS citizens of n COM
mon couptry without the least discord.
The Jewish 10 the preponderMt ng foreign
cement, and here rs elsewhere its rep
resentatives a"e numbered among our
most responsible. energetic and public
spirited NOR hants and business men.
Our town does not show q rapid in
crease of wealth. but its growth is
steady and healthy. The assessed val
nat on of property for 1886 is as fol-
lows: Realty, S-59,O20; personally,
$780,; total. S437,O16.
The financial status of the city is ex-
cellent 1t is out of debt and its war
rants at par. Neither are taxes exorb-
liant. the levy for 1886 being u mills.
including school tax.
All the business port on of the city is
provided with large public cisterns, and
. good hand-ensine and hook and lad
dor apparatus, operated by four COM
panies of we'll organized volunteer fire.
men. furnish reasonable safety from
the destruct ON OF the re-iiend.
society, Schools aud Churches.
Brookhaven has ever been noted for
the beauty of her women and the gal
lantry of her men. and in point of in
tellgence. culture and animation
her society circles will compare favora-
bly, with those of any other community.
Bishop c. b. Galloway. of the NJ. +
Church. South: Hon. j. b. Chrisman.
Judge of the Tenth Judicial District;
Hon. j. +. Sessions, President of the
Mississippi Railroad commission; Pres
idcnt Fitzhugh. of Whitworth College.
and many others of high social position
and Intelligence reside here.
With hools our city is highly fav-
ored First apd foremost of thas4 j.
the famous Whitworth Female College
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